Quotessence
Home / Topics / Trinity Quotes

Trinity Quotes

Browse 209 quotes about Trinity.

Related topics

HolyHoly TrinityPersonsSpiritSonFatherThreeChristianJesusChristDoctrineIfsMindBelieveMenBodyChurchHoly SpiritWorshipGivingHeartMysteryCollegeHumansReligiousWorld

Trinity Quotes

“We are now assuming that we have here the centre and goal of all God's works, and therefore the hidden beginning of them all. We are also assuming that the prominent place occupied by this divine work has something corresponding to it in the essence of God, that the Son forms the centre of the Trinity, and that the essence of the divine being has, so to speak, its locus ... in His work, in the name and person of Jesus Christ.”

PersonsFormJesusNamesSpeakGoalChristDivineSonJesus ChristEssenceAssumingCentreTrinityProminentCorresponding
Book:Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of God, Volume 2, Part 1: The Knowledge of God; The Reality of God
Create image

“We find upon all occasions, the early Christian writers speak of the Father as superior to the Son, and in general they give him the title of God , as distinguished from the Son; and sometimes they expressly call him, exclusively of the Son, the only true God ; a phraseology which does not at all accord with the idea of the perfect equality of all the persons in the Trinity. But it might well be expected, that the advances to the present doctrine of the Trinity should be gradual and slow. It was, indeed, some centuries before it was completely formed.”

GivingShouldWellsPersonsDoeIdeasSometimesMightChristianFatherSpeakPerfectCenturySonExpectedDoctrineSuperiorsOccasionsTitlesDistinguishedAccordTrinityTrue GodAll Occasions
Book:A History of the Corruptions of Christianity
Create image

“Had Mr. Gibbon lived in France, Spain, or Italy, he might with the fame reason have ranked the doctrine of transubstantiation, and the worship of saints and angels among the essentials of Christianity, as the doctrines of the trinity and of the atonement.”

ReasonMightChristianityFameEssentialsWorshipAngelSaintDoctrineFranceSpainAtonementTrinityTransubstantiation
Book:An History of the Corruptions of Christianity
Create image

“The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew what they were fighting about, and which schisms contributed to the decline and fall of this greatest of states. Rome had thrived for one thousand years with pagan gods at the helm and expired after only one hundred and fifty years under the Christian banner.”

YearsStatesChristianFallFightingAtheismThousandHundredPositive AtheismFiftyEmpiresDividedRomeDeclineThousand YearsPaganEighteenSectsRoman EmpireBannerTrinityPlatonicHelmExpiredSchismTestimonialPagan GodsDoxology
Author:Ruth Hurmence Green
Create image

“We have a hieroglyphical inscription in the British Museum as early as the reign of Sevechus of the eighth century before the Christian era, showing that the doctrine of Trinity in Unity already formed part of their religion and that ... the three gods only made one person.”

PersonsMadeChristianThreeAtheismCenturyUnityBritishPositive AtheismDoctrineErasMuseumsReignTrinityInscriptionsBritish Museum
Book:Egyptian mythology and Egyptian Christianity, with their influence on the opinions of modern Christendom
Create image

“We're into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We're into the age were independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity of me, myself and I, seems to dominate. We know that's contrary to the very nature of the human person. The very nature of the human person needs God and needs other people.”

PeopleKnowsNeedsHumansPersonsSometimesSeemsAgeIndividualIndependenceContrarySelfishnessAutonomyConvenienceTrinityNeed God
Author:Timothy M. Dolan
Create image

“Only a God of love is fully personal. Thus the Trinity is crucial for maintaining a fully personal concept of God. As theologian Robert Letham writes, “Only a God who is triune can be personal.... A solitary monad cannot love and, since it cannot love, neither can it be a person.” Therefore it “has no way to explain or even to maintain human personhood.”

WayWritingHumansPersonsLove IsConceptsCrucialSolitaryTheologianMaintainingTrinityPersonhood
Author:Nancy Pearcey
Create image

“People will listen to sophisticated physicists, using God as a kind of metaphor for the deep constants, the deep problems, the deep principles of physics, and say that in that sense I believe in God. The reaction is, "Oh, this great physicist believes in God - that means I'm free to believe in the trinity and in the crucifixion and in the reincarnation of Christ" - and all that stuff, which of course has nothing whatever to do with the fundamental constants of physics, which is what these physicists are talking about.”

PeopleBelieveKindMeanProblemCoursesI BelieveStuffChristTalkingPrinciplesFundamentalsMetaphorI Believe InPhysicsReactionsBelieve In GodSophisticatedReincarnationPhysicistTrinityCrucifixionI Believe In God
Author:Richard Dawkins
Create image

“When I was twelve years old I thought up an odd trinity: namely, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Devil. My inference wasthat God, in contemplating himself, created the second person of the godhead; but that, in order to be able to contemplate himself, he had to contemplate, and thus to create, his opposite.--With this I began to do philosophy.”

YearsPersonsPhilosophyGodAbleOrderFatherSonDevilOppositesOddTwelveContemplatingTrinityInference
Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
Create image

“Quite interesting, North Korea is as if it's an entirely secular dictatorship. In North Korea you might think that was the case since it has an officially Communistic ideology, but it's not, it's the most religious state it's possible to imagine. It's actually two people who have been fused into one, maybe this is reminding you of something, there's the father and there's the son. It's one short of a trinity.”

PeopleIfsThinkingHas BeensTwoStatesMightFatherReligiousInterestingCasesImagineSonIdeologyDictatorshipSecularKoreaNorth KoreaRemindingTrinity
Author:Christopher Hitchens
Create image

“Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.”

TwoIndividualUnderstandingWaterAnimalAliveMysteryMastersSpeechThirdsRemoveSublimeOxygenExplainingMuteTrinityHydrogenRecapitulation
Author:Mark Twain
Create image

“I just moved onto Queen West, after 20 years in Cabbagetown. The whole area around Trinity-Bellwoods is one of the juiciest in Toronto - all kinds of people to watch, dogs to pat, food to eat, galleries to check out. And the walk home from CBC delivers some of the most interesting window-shopping in town.”

PeopleYearsKindWholeHomeWalksInterestingWatchesDogAreasWindowTownsMovedWestChecksAll KindsQueensShoppingMost InterestingGalleryTrinityTorontoWindow ShoppingCbc
Author:Andy Barrie
Create image

“The whole story of creation, incarnation, and our incorporation into the fellowship of Christ's body tells us that God desires us, as if we were God, as if we were that unconditional response to God's giving that God's self makes in the life of the Trinity. We are created so that we may be caught up in this, so that we may grow into the wholehearted love of God by learning that God loves us as God loves God.”

IfsGivingMaySelfWholeStoriesBodyDesireGrowsChristCreationResponseCaughtGod LoveCaught UpUnconditionalFellowshipIncarnationTrinityGod Loves UsIncorporation
Author:Rowan Williams
Create image

“Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'”

PeopleThinkingTodayYoungRaceClassRolesTeachIssuesYouthStudentsSacredGenderImmigrationPropagandaGlobal WarmingOne TimeEducatorTrinityPolitically CorrectHitler Youth
Author:Thomas Sowell
Create image

“The Holy Trinity doesn't need our permission to carry on in their endlessly resourceful work of making all things new. That we are invited to catch even a glimpse of the splendor is grace. All of it, every breath and every second is grace.”

NeedsGraceHolyAll ThingsBreathsPermissionGlimpseInvitedSplendorTrinityEvery SecondResourcefulHoly TrinityAll Things New
Book:Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Create image